From the Summit of the Moral High Ground

Exhausted from Life's Treadmill I wish I had a silver ounce for every time I’ve heard the phrase “ It is human nature…… ” or some such derivative or derivation. Alan Greenspan recently popped to the surface of his personal cesspool to proclaim it is human nature to create financial bubbles, thus absolving himself of any blame for a runaway fiat candy machine. His exact words were “ Bubbles are functions of unchangeable human nature . ” I will stifle the urge to flush Greenspan back down the commode where he belongs and instead focus upon the mistaken belief we can actually determine exactly what is ‘human nature’ after hundreds if not thousands of years of social conditioning and manipulation. Our fragile egos, both personally and as a collective, have a difficult enough time accepting “ We the People ” are effectively influenced by ‘popular culture’, let alone that we would seriously entertain the idea we are thoroughly conditioned humans from birth. But considering we ...